A radical re-examination of the rise of early nineteenth-century Britain's largest popular movement
This radical re-examination of the rise of early nineteenth-century Britain's largest popular movement draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in the unlikely stronghold of Bedfordshire. The study digs beneath the seemingly steady advance portrayed by official membership statistics to uncover a much more unstable and rapidly changing picture in which different generations and social groups appropriated the religious structures of the movement as vehicles to express a wide variety of aspirations and grievances. JONATHAN RODELL read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a Visiting Fellow at Southern Methodist University, Dallas and now teaches for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.
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No regional history of Methodism draws on such an illuminating range of sources as this one. ARCHIVES
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Abbreviations |
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| Introduction |
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Chapter One Pious societies: the first rise of Methodism 1736--1790 |
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Chapter Two Respectable congregations: the second rise of Methodism 1791--1830 |
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Chapter Three Popular protests: the third rise of Methodism 1831--1851 |
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Chapter Four Re-visiting the rise of Methodism: Bedfordshire and the historiography of Methodist growth |
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| Appendix A Evaluating the sources for Methodist history |
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| Appendix B The sub-division of the Bedfordshire Wesleyan circuit 1763--1851 |
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Dr Jonathan Rodell read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a Visiting Fellow at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and is now a Panel Tutor for the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
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